#Naval Hospital

[cooljamaicauniverse]

Old Naval Hospital, Port Royal, St. Catherine, Jamaica

[Fun Fact]

Built around 1818, the Historic Naval Hospital is an early example of the use of cast iron in construction. It was designed by a team headed by naval architect Edward Holl and constructed using the labour of enslaved Africans. The prefabricated cast iron units were imported from Sheffield, England, and the bricks were made from local clay. The building rests on a raft foundation, that is, all supporting iron columns are linked beneath the surface.

The hospital was built on the foundations of an earlier one erected in 1743 and destroyed by fire in 1812. Outbuildings included kitchens, staff quarters, isolation ward, mortuary, and a storeroom. The services at the new hospital received high praise from those who were treated there. One of the first to be nursed at the hospital was Captain Botelier.

 —-Jamaica National Heritage Trust 

Mark Phinn Photography

[ltwilliammowett]

Hospital Ships Lying off Greenwich, by Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore (1853-1901)

[retropopcult]

"Beauty contestants visit Vietnam vets": this photo features Miss World USA 1972 and future Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter (@reallyndacarter). Standing next to her are Priscilla Barnes (Miss San Diego, and a decade later would be on Three's Company) and Miss Maryland, Betty Jo Grove.

Oh, and some old guy named Bob Hope.

[si-no-lo-muestro-no-existe]

Hospital Naval 📷Nikon FM2 🎞 Kodak Vision 3 500T

[postcard-from-the-past]

Royal Naval Hospital in Malta

British vintage postcard

[allalrightagain]

Oh god we’re approaching the end of the month again and I have a collection of half-finished Pocket Dad drafts and no motivation. Vote or send prompts please?

Prompts accepted (with my discretion)—

An emotion Peter (or potentially another character) might feel at some point

A canon event sometime before the end of Year 3

Something already mentioned or implied in Pocket Dad so far

[mareislandfoundation]

Life and Death at the Gate

At dawn on Sunday, 25 June 1950, the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel supported by massed artillery fire. With the support of the Soviet Union the invasion was based on a false claim by North Korea that South Korean troops had attacked first. The real aim of the invasion was to take by force and subjugate South Korea under rule of the current North Korean leader's grandfather and his sham democracy. Condemned by the Free World, the invasion drew the first ever response by the United Nations, primarily supported by U.S. troops and aid. The war has technically never ended, and it resulted in millions killed and over 100,000 U.S. servicemen wounded or killed in action. In recognition of the coming carnage, a short time after the invasion, the World War II era hospital ship USS Benevolence (AH-13) was towed from a mothball fleet to Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINS) in the San Francisco Bay Area to be taken out of mothballs and recommissioned. The US Navy Hospital Ship Benevolence would never make it to Korea. She tragically sank just minutes outside the Golden Gate while returning from sea trials.

Benevolence departed Mare Island at 0800 on 25 August 1950 for limited sea trials following recommissioning. Eight and a half hours later the fully loaded freighter SS Mary Luckenbac passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in thick fog bound for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Visibility was reported to vary from 300 to 400 yards. Radar had become common place by the 1950’s, but the Mary Luckenbac‘s radar had malfunctioned and was turned off. As the Mary Luckenbac passed under the bridge, she was on a collision course with the Benevolence returning from her sea trials. Aboard the Benevolence the radar was on and operating, but for some reason the crew was unaware of the approaching freighter. Both ships had bow lookouts posted and were operating their fog horns, but their combined closing speeds of 27 knots would doom the Benevolence. At an estimated 1,000 yards bow lookouts on the Benevolence sighted the bow wave of the approaching freighter. Benevolence began blasting the emergency signal on the ship’s horn as both ships attempted evasive action. It was too late, within three minutes the freighter slammed into the hospital ship raking her compartments open along the port side.

Following the collision both ships vanished into the fog. Unaware of the extent of the damage to his ship, Captain Barton E· Bacon on board the Benevolence gave no orders to prepare to abandon ship. However, within 5 minutes his ship’s main deck had sunk to sea level at the bow and she was listing 45 degrees, too far over to launch the lifeboats. The Benevolence had managed to transmit a message requesting emergency assistance just after the collision and then radio contact was lost. Twenty minutes later the Benevolence rolled over and sank in the shipping channel between Pt. Bonita and Seal Rocks. Five Hundred and twenty-five men and women went into the frigid water as the outgoing tide scattered them further out to sea. As word of the disaster spread a small armada of fishing boats, yachts, coast guard and naval vessels began scouring the seas in the thick fog looking for survivors. Survivors would continue to be found and pulled from the sea for nearly two days and as they were landed by rescue ships the Red Cross handed them a carton of cigarettes and the Service’s gave them booze. In the end eleven Navy, ten Military Sea Transportation Service and two MINS tradesmen were lost.

The Benevolence laid just beneath the waves in the south shipping channel as a hazard to navigation for sixteen months as separate courts of inquiry were held by the Navy and Coast Guard on Treasure Island and in San Francisco respectively. While the inquiries were underway MINS was directed to study the possibility of salvage. A no cure no pay request for proposals was sent to Bay Area salvage firms to evaluate the feasibility of salvage. A tanker suffered a minor collision with the Benevolence hulk, before MINS officials determined that salvage was not feasible, and the decision was made to remove the hazard with explosives. When you visit the USS San Francisco memorial near Lands’ End on the 49 Mile Scenic Drive and look out to sea you are overlooking the site of the Benevolence sinking.

Dennis Kelly

[thekenobee]

*finishes reading "Fortune of War" minutes before she needs to leave the house in order to catch a train*

That's some fine craftsmanship

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[sainikwelfareinformation]

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[papasmoke]

If Trump wins they'll let Israel destroy Gaza's entire Healthcare system including American-built hospitals & burn patients alive in their beds, that's already happening? Well if Trump wins they'll let Israel send their soldiers who've killed in Gaza to study at American universities and brag about their war crimes to the students who's families they've killed. That's already happening? Well if Trump wins he'll send American soldiers, missile interception systems, and naval task forces to stop anyone on earth from attempting to enforce the responsibility-to-protect under the genocide convention that the US was a signatory to. That's already happening? Well if Trump is elected he'll hurt ME.

[wolfephoto]

University of Greenwich - Old Royal Naval College by John Wolfe Via Flickr: Greenwich - London - 2023

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NOTICIAS DE HOY 16 DE JULIO 2023 -TITULARES-

Sector Marítimo, Portuario y Logístico Nacional e Internacional. #INTERNACIONALES Emiten aviso de tsunami tras sismo de magnitud 7.2 en Alaska, EE.UU. Más en: Telesur El futuro buque de inspección subacuática finaliza la primera fase de ensayos en el Inta-Cehipar Más en: Actualidad Marítima Acuerdo entre la DGMM y Cabo Verde en materia de reconocimiento de títulos, de conformidad con el…